October 2009 - Zope-Announce

Grok 1.0 released!
by Jan-Wijbrand Kolman 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

The Grok_ development team is very happy to release Grok 1.0. Grok 1.0 is the culmination of 3 years of work after the start of the Grok project in late 2006. It presents a stable platform for developing powerful, extensible web applications. Grok is the result of years of work by the large Grok development team. With Grok, simple projects are easy to create, but it is with increasing complexity and reuse that the Grok framework excels. Grok 1.0 is not the end of Grok development. Since Grok is extensible many powerful new features are being made available as growing collection of extension packages. The Grok development team is also working on a whole range of initiatives to improve Grok even further. The Grok documentation team is also busily working on improving Grok's extensive documentation resources. .. _Grok: http://grok.zope.org See the more extensive announcement here for more information: http://grok.zope.org/project/releases/1.0 About Grok ----------------- Grok is a modern Python-based web framework. Grok is powerful in the hands of an expert developer, as it excels in reuse and extensibility thanks to its use of a component development model. At the same time Grok aims to let less experienced developers be productive immediately, so that the walk up the learning curve is more smooth for them. Grok lets you store your Python objects easily in the battle-tested ZODB, an object database. Alternatively relational databases are supported with Grok, using the `megrok.rdb`_ extension and SQLAlchemy. .. _`megrok.rdb`: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/megrok.rdb Grok is developed in the Zope community and is built with Zope technologies. In particular, Grok builds on the `Zope Toolkit`_, a collection of libraries that make use of a common component development model, the Zope Component Architecture. The Zope community has more than a decade of experience in developing web applications with Python. The Zope Toolkit is the result of this experience, .. _`Zope Toolkit`: http://docs.zope.org/zopetoolkit/ Grok is WSGI compatible and can therefore be integrated with the wide range of WSGI-based technologies available in the Python world today. Grok technologies themselves are also available for reuse. This has enabled developers to use them in combination with the Silva and Plone CMS projects, which work with the Zope 2 application server. regards, The Grok Team

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ZClasses resurrected
by Dieter Maurer 03 Oct '09

03 Oct '09

The Zope developers have ripped out the ZClasses functionality from the Zope core in version 2.12. As promised, I have collected the former code in a new package ("dm.zopepatches.zclasses" on PyPI). When imported, this package uses monkey patching to restore the ZClasses functionality. New tests verify the functionality as formerly described in the Zope book (2.7 edition). To make "ZClasses" available again, the ZODB root database requires "dm.zopepatches.zclasses.ClassFactory" as "class-factory" option in the Zope configuration file. When this option is processed, the package is imported and the monkey patching takes place. The current version does not yet restore the "distribution" functionality (of Zope products). Let me know when you need this functionality. -- Dieter

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Zope 2.12.0 released
by Andreas Jung 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

On behalf of the Zope 2 developers community I am pleased to announce the official release of Zope 2.12.0. Major changes: - Ships with ZODB 3.9 - Runs on top of Python 2.5 and 2.6 (no official support for Python 2.4, your mileage may vary) - Fully eggified - you install Zope 2.12 directly from PyPI using *easy_install* or *zc.buildout* - Lots of cleanup on the module level (e.g. ZClasses have gone forever - like it or not) - Ships with the Zope component library (aka Zope 3.4) - RESTified documentation in order to generate nice looking HTML/PDF documents using Sphinx - lots of other small details For more details, check: http://docs.zope.org/zope2/releases/2.12/WHATSNEW.html Release notes: http://docs.zope.org/zope2/releases/2.12/CHANGES.html Especially read the installation instructions since the installation process is different from all other Zope versions (because of the eggification process). Keep in mind that we do no longer provide the traditional all-in-one source tarball: http://docs.zope.org/zope2/releases/2.12/INSTALL.html The official Zope 2.12 project page on PyPI can be found here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Zope2/ If you have found a bug, please report it on Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope2/ I would like to thank all people having contributed to this release. Special thanks to Tres Seaver for his tireless efforts in fixing bugs and maintaining the Zope 2 codebase and Hanno Schlichting who worked hard and steadfast on the eggification of Zope 2 and on the cleanup of various dark corners of the Zope 2 codebase. In addition we launched the dedicated zope2.zope.org microsite today. This is one of the first steps for relaunching the Zope sites (including www.zope.org) asap. Andreas Jung Zope 2 Release Manager -- ZOPYX Ltd. & Co KG \ ZOPYX & Friends Charlottenstr. 37/1 \ The experts for your Python, Zope and D-72070 Tübingen \ Plone projects www.zopyx.com, info(a)zopyx.com \ www.zopyx.de/friends, friends(a)zopyx.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------ E-Publishing, Python, Zope & Plone development, Consulting

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zope2.zope.org launched
by Andreas Jung 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

I am pleased to announce the launch of a new website dedicated to the Zope 2 application server: zope2.zope.org This site gives the Zope 2 application a much better representation on the web (which was more than necessary after having lived for years with the current old www.zope.org site). zope2.zope.org is not a community site. You will not be able to register or upload personal content (use www.zope.org for the time being). We will publish content on request (events, news etc.) - please contact the webmaster in such a case. It took more than half a year in order to get this site done and I would like to thank the following people for their involvement in this project: - Alma Ong (Design) - Robert Rottermann and Gerhard Hug (implementation of the Plone theme) - Jens Vagelpohl (server setup, technical support, content review) - Matthew Wilkes (content review) - Sidnei da Silva (moving Zope 2 downloads to Launchpad) - Michael Haubenwaller (the Zope webmaster) Andreas Jung Zope 2 Release Manager

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